ChatGPT is seductive: it’s so easy to ask a question and get an answer. It’s understandable that lawyers – like everyone else – might want to use it to see what it says in response to a legal question, or to get a first draft answer to a legal problem. There is technology coming down the pipeline that will allow for safe ways to leverage this kind of technology in law firms, but ChatGPT is not it. ChatGPT itself comes with all kinds of risks and issues. It’s a great entry into generative AI, and indicative of even more interesting things to come, but it’s not production ready – that’s why it’s still in beta.
